Bank-note holder



(No Model.)

F. O. YOUNG.

BANK NOTE HOLDER. No. 415,763 Patented Nov; 26, 1889.

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FREDE RIC O. YOUNG, OE REVERE, MASSACHUSETTS.

BANK-NOTE HOLDER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 415,763, dated November 26, 1889.

Application filed April 12, 1889- Serial No. 307,039. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, FREDERIO O. YOUNG, of Revere, in the county of Suffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented an Improvement in Bank-Note Holders, of which the following is a specification.

The object of my invention is to provide a cheap, simple, and convenient banknote holder, adapted to hold one or more packages or piles of unbundled or loose bank-notes, so as to be more conveniently held in a desired position when placed in a safe or vault of a bank, and when removed therefrom to be counted in a more expeditious manner than heretofore; and it consists in the novel construction, combination, and arrangement of the several parts of the said device, as hereinafter more fully described, and set forth in the claim.

In the drawings hereto annexed is illustrated a bank-note holder embodying my invention. I

Figure 1 represents a plan of a bank-note holder. Fig. 2 represents a vertical central sectional elevation of the same on line ac 00. Fig. 3 represents a detail of a separable portion, drawn on an enlarged scale.

A represents the base or bottom portion, which may be constructed of wood, metal, or other desired material and of such shape as shall best serve the purposes contemplated. To this base is secured, near the opposite sides thereof, the two vertical guide-rods or supports B, provided upon their inward surfaces with a series of horizontal notches C, as shown in Fig. 2. There is also secured to the said base A a vertical guide-rod D and a detachable guide-rod E, which may be removed from its socket or plate F, for the purpose hereinafter described. Now, when a number of bank-notes have been placed or piled up between either two of the said guide-rods, or packages or piles have been placed at right angles to each other, and one pile upon another, and it is desirable to hold them in such position temporarily, I provide a clamp-plate which it passes.

H, fitted loosely between the said vertical guide-rods, and provided centrally with a short vertical stud L, upon which slides the knob or pull K, the lower end of which is permanently secured to the horizontal fiat steel spring-bar N, which has a central opening in which the said stud L operates, or through The opposite end portions of the said spring-bar N are held loosely in contact with the said clamp-plate H by guideloops P, secured thereto near each of the two corners opposite the notched guide-rods B, as shown. Now it will be seen and understood that when a pile of bank-notes has been placed between the vertical guide-rods preparatory to being clamped or held in position resting upon the said base A, the pull-knob K is forced upward on the stud L, which draws upward the central port-ion of the spring-bar N, and consequently its opposite ends inwardly, when the clamp plate l-I may be introduced between the studs and pressed downward upon the pile of bank-notes, and the spring-bar released its opposite ends slide outward and enter the notches O in the supports B, and thereby temporarily secure the bank-notes in position therein.

\Vhenever it is desired to count the notes without removing the clamp-plate H, remove the detachable guide-rod E, as shown in Fig. 3, and the ends of the notes may be turned as desired.

Having thus described my invention, I claim A bank-note holder consisting of a base portion A, having two vertical guide-rods B, provided with notches C, a guide-rod D, and a detachable guide-rod E, a clamp-plate H, provided with a spring-bar N, having a knob K, and the stud L, secured to the said clampplate, as and for the purposes set forth.

FREDERIC O. YOUNG.

Witnesses:

SYLvENUs WALKER, WILLIAM H. PARRY. 

